Soul of a Scholar
A conversation with the new HUC-JIR President Rabbi David Ellenson.

Dynamo in D.C.by Rahel Musleah
A day in the life of Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action
Center of Reform Judaism.

FOCUS: BITTERSWEET LANDS

South Africa: In the Shadow of Apartheidby Bonny Fetterman
One of the great social experiments of our time is unfolding in South Africa--and
its now-diminished Jewish community is determined to make it succeed.

Cuba: In the Shadow of Castroby Jeffrey Salkin
A generation of Communism--and poverty so severe that physicians become hotel maids for American dollars--has not sapped the spiritual energy of Cuban Jewry.

Poland: In the Shadow of Memoryby
Aron Hirt-Manheimer
In a land that was once home to a great Jewish civilization, some Jews and
non-Jews construct memorials to "a vanished people," while others
rebuild a living Judaism.

The Politics of Apologyby Morlan
Ty Rogers
The inscription of the Jedwabne monument erected by the Polish government was a lie. I vowed to express the truth to the world.